# CUDA bindings? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 9, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089 "2008-09-09T06:15:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/1 "2008-09-09T06:15:47Z")
I was wondering if anybody has (is thinking of) creating CUDA bindings. I searched this forum archives, and [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org), but couldn’t find any references to CUDA. Wikipedia showed an example with python. > **[CUDA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA)** > > CUDA (or Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary and closed source parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs (GPGPU). CUDA is a software layer that gives direct access to the GPU's virtual instruction set and parallel computational elements, for the execution of compute kernels. > CUDA is desig... CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), is a compiler and set of development tools that enable programmers to use a variation of C to code algorithms for execution on the graphics processing unit (GPU). CUDA has been developed by NVIDIA and to use this architecture requires an Nvidia GPU and drivers. The latest drivers all contain the necessary CUDA components. CUDA works with all NVIDIA GPUs from the G8X series onwards, including GeForce, Quadro and the Tesla line. NVIDIA states that programs developed for the GeForce 8 series will also work without modification on all future Nvidia video cards, due to binary compatibility. CUDA gives developers access to the native instruction set and memory of the massively parallel computational elements in CUDA GPUs. Using CUDA, the latest NVIDIA GPUs effectively become open architectures like CPUs (Central Processing Units). Unlike CPUs however, GPUs have a parallel “many-core” architecture, each core capable of running thousands of threads simultaneously - if an application is suited to this kind of an architecture, the GPU can offer large performance benefits. CUDA provides both deterministic low level API and a higher level API. ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/2 "2008-09-09T18:30:00Z")
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 05:43:46 jzakiya wrote: > I was wondering if anybody has (is thinking of) creating CUDA > bindings. I searched this forum archives, and [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org), but > couldn’t find any references to CUDA. > I was thinking about that few months back, but didn’t really get to it > due to > lack of time. Also there’s the problem of target audience - the number > of > people that would be interested in it can be counted on the fingers of > one > hand of blind butcher. (And those people can as well go the Python > route) Jan ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/3 "2008-09-13T02:19:22Z")
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Jan D. wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 05:43:46 jzakiya wrote: > > > I was wondering if anybody has (is thinking of) creating CUDA > > bindings. I searched this forum archives, and [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org), but > > couldn’t find any references to CUDA. > > I was thinking about that few months back, but didn’t really get to it due to > > lack of time. Also there’s the problem of target audience - the number of > > people that would be interested in it can be counted on the fingers of one > > hand of blind butcher. (And those people can as well go the Python route) Actually, I am interested and I’ll be a number of the folks on the Beowulf list would be interested. – Matt It’s not what I know that counts. It’s what I can remember in time to use. ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/4 "2009-05-13T04:17:41Z")
I’m interested too =) ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/5 "2009-05-13T05:01:34Z")
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Sergio F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m interested too =) I know the Rubinius people were interested in using GPU-type features or maybe CUDA. Evan P., the Rubinius head honcho, was even talking about using GPU features to accelerate things like method dispatch. Pretty nuts. ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/6 "2009-08-31T02:30:05Z")
Not quite CUDA, but I’ve written a very simple OpenCL wrapper library for Ruby called Barracuda. > **[Barracuda: An OpenCL Library for Ruby](https://gnuu.org/2009/08/30/barracuda-an-opencl-library-for-ruby/)** > > Barracuda is my latest experiment. I wanted to toy around with the new features of Snow Leopard, and as far as I’ve seen, there are no CUDA or OpenCL wrapper libraries out there for Ruby. > OpenCL, if you don’t know, is an “open” version of CUDA, which... It currently only works on OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but if you have the OpenCL libs installed on your machine and are willing to hack the Makefiles for a few minutes, you could probably get it to compile for other platforms. ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/7 "2009-10-04T22:07:43Z")
nice one Loren Anybody have found where to use it ? ---
**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cuda-bindings/148089/8 "2010-06-28T21:00:12Z")
I think this posting falls into the category of being a replay to a related question: “Attention: posting any kind of advertisement for commercial products or services, unless in reply to a related question, is prohibited.” I have posted the KappaCUDA rubygem (under the MIT License). The Kappa Library is a commercial library that uses the NVIDIA CUDA driver API to give an object-oriented scheduler based interface to CUDA, C/C++ OpenMP, Perl, and Python. The Kappa scheduler allows mixing these different components together in combined tasks and libraries. The Kappa scheduler ends up giving better performance on the current NVIDIA hardware than directly using the NVIDIA APIs–even with pure C++ code. The Perl and Python keywords are extensions to Kappa. The Perl and Python keywords’ source code are MIT License–it should be easy for anyone with knowledge of embedded Ruby to use these examples to create a Ruby keyword so that you can not only have a task being executed by Ruby but that it can combine CUDA, C/C++ OpenMP, Perl, Python, and Ruby.